1.
Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
–
The Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team represents Washington & Jefferson College in collegiate level football. The team competes in NCAA Division III and is affiliated with the Presidents Athletic Conference, since its founding in 1890, the team has played their home games at College Field, which was remodeled and renamed Cameron Stadium in 2001. A number of players were named to the College Football All-America Team, the team has been coached by some of the best-known coaches in football history, including John Heisman, Greasy Neale, and Andy Kerr. Founded in 1890, the quickly became well known for drawing large crowds. The faculty and administration expressed concern over the strength of the team, during the 1910s, some sportswriters suggested that the Presidents were one of the top teams in the nation. The greatest achievement in the history was in 1921, when the Presidents appeared in the 1922 Rose Bowl. As college football evolved in the 1930s and 1940s, the Presidents fell far behind their larger competitors, controversy over the poor play of the football team, and a lack of play against larger teams, contributed to the resignation of a college president. In the 1950s the team joined NCAA Division III and the Presidents Athletic Conference, by the 1980s, the team had learned to thrive in that environment, winning a number of conference championships and regularly qualifying for the NCAA Division III playoffs. The football team played its first game on November 1,1890, the Red and Blacks third game of the inaugural season, against College of Wooster, remains disputed to this day, with both schools claiming a victory. By 1894, the communitys interest in the sport had grown considerably, with stronger opponents. A special train from Washington to Pittsburgh was chartered to carry fans, John Brallier, who was the first openly professional football player, played football for Washington & Jefferson College in 1895 before returning to the Greensburg Athletic Association. This incident, and others, caused the faculty to adopt the colleges first eligibility requirements for student athletes, at the same time its activities was becoming more scrutinized, the football team became more successful. But was the September 29,1897, game against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers that marked the birth of football at W&J. The Red and Black lost 18-4 to the national champions. In a game against Denison University on Sept.19,1908, in 1910, the football program was in danger of being dissolved due to crushing debt. The Student Athletic Committee proposed a $1 per term student fee to fund the team, however, team manager and beloved student solicitor Robert M. Murphy, was able to convince the students to accept the fee. However, the Faculty Athletic Committee balked, vetoing the new rules, wells highlighted the growing tension between athletics and academics. As orchestrated by a group of football supporters, the two professors were brought before a faculty committee for not having the requisite support for the athletic programs

2.
Frank Piekarski
–
Frank Anthony Piekarski was an American football player and coach who later served as a judge in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he played football for the Penn Quakers as a guard from 1901 to 1904. Piekarski was a selection to the 1903 College Football All-America Team. He was among the first Polish-Americans to gain recognition in college football, following his graduation from Penn, Piekarski served as the head football coach at Washington & Jefferson College from 1905 to 1907, leading the Presidents to a record of 25–7 in three seasons. In 1914 he returned to his alma mater, Penn, as an assistant football coach in charge of the linemen under head coach George H. Brooke, in 1933, he became a judge in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Piekarski died in 1951 at Pittsburgh Hospital in Pittsburgh, in 2005, he was named to the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame

3.
Washington & Jefferson College
–
Washington & Jefferson College, also known as W & J College or W&J, is a private liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States, which is 30 mi south of Pittsburgh. These two colleges merged in 1865 to form Washington & Jefferson College, the 60-acre campus, located in Washington, Pennsylvania, has more than 40 buildings, with the oldest dating to 1793. The colleges academic emphasis is on the arts and the sciences, with a focus on preparing students for graduate. Campus activities include religious, political, and general interest clubs, as well as academic. The college has a history of competing literary societies, dating back before the union of Jefferson and Washington Colleges. Students operate a radio station, a campus newspaper. The athletic program competes in NCAA Division III, the football team has been particularly successful over its history, even competing in the 1922 Rose Bowl. A large majority of students participate in intramural athletics, nearly all students live on campus and roughly one third are members of fraternities or sororities. Washington & Jefferson College traces its origin to three log cabin colleges established by three clergymen in the 1780s, John McMillan, Thaddeus Dod, and Joseph Smith. John McMillan, the most prominent of the three founders because of his personality and longevity, came to the area in 1775. Thaddeus Dod, known as a scholar, built his log cabin college in Lower Ten Mile in 1781. Joseph Smith taught classical studies in his college, called The Study, Washington Academy was chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on September 24,1787. The first members of the board of trustees included Reverends Dod, amid financial difficulties and unrest from the Whiskey Rebellion, the Academy held no classes from 1791 to 1796. In 1792, the Academy secured four lots at Wheeling and Lincoln street from William Hoge, during the Whiskey Rebellion, portions of David Bradfords militia camped on a hillside that would later become home to the unified Washington & Jefferson College. At a subsequent unknown date, McMillan transferred his students from the log cabin to Canonsburg Academy, on January 15,1802, with McMillan as president of the board, the General Assembly finally granted a charter for a college at Canonsburgh. In 1802, Canonsburg Academy was reconstituted as Jefferson College, with John McMillan serving as the first President of the Board of Trustees, in 1806, Matthew Brown petitioned the Pennsylvania General Assembly to grant Washington Academy a charter, allowing it to be re-christened as Washington College. In 1817, a disagreement over an agreement for unification erupted into The College War. In the ensuing years, both began to undertake risky financial moves, especially over-selling scholarships

4.
1907 college football season
–
The 1907 IAAUS football season saw the increased use of the forward pass, which had been legalized the year before. Football remained a game, despite the debrutalization reforms. However, there were no injuries reported among the major colleges. The Yale Bulldogs, unbeaten with a record of 10-0-1, had the best record, the Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, declared retroactively that Yale had been the best college football team of 1907. Yale and Penn both claim 1907 as a championship season. While Yale was named as champion by 6 different entities, Penn was not named champion by any, penns claim to the championship is only by the university itself. The rules for American football in 1907 were significantly different than the ones of a century later, however, because of problems with the rules at that time, which penalized the offense for an incomplete pass, there were predictions that the forward pass would be scrapped. Attempting a pass in 1907 was still a business, because an incomplete attempt would result in stiff penalties—15 yards back from the spot from which the pass was thrown on first or second down. If the defense committed a foul, the 15 yard penalty didnt apply to the offense, in addition, a pass could not be caught in the end zone, nor more than 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage. The Big Nine Conference, still known as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. Iowa became a joint member of the Big 9 and the Missouri Valley conferences, the Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs had both been unbeaten in 1906, and played to a 0-0 tie at seasons end, giving both teams a 9-0-1 record. Among other schools that would later be described as the Ivy League, elsewhere in the East, the United States Naval Academy Midshipmen and the Carlisle Indian School were expected to do well. In the South, the Vanderbilt Commodores and the Sewanee Tigers of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association were considered contenders, Carlisle opened its season early with a 40-0 win over Lebanon Valley on September 21, and Brown beat New Hampshire, 16-0. Colgate, which would later be a contender, lost to Niagara, 11-6, on September 28, Pennsylvania beat North Carolina in a driving rain at Philadelphia, 27-0. Princeton crushed Stevens Tech 47-0, while Harvard was held to a touchdown in a 5-0 win over Bowdoin, Brown beat Massachusetts 5-0, and Fordham and Rutgers played to a 5-5 tie. Yale opened its season on Wednesday afternoon, October 2, with a 25-0 win over Wesleyan. The same day, Harvard beat Maine, 30-0, Navy tuned up with a 26-0 win over St. Johns College of Maryland, Pennsylvania beat Villanova 16-0 and Carlisle rolled over Susquehanna, 91-0. At West Point, the United States Military Academy opened its season with a 23-0 win over Franklin & Marshall

5.
Sports Reference
–
Sports Reference, LLC is a company which operates several sports-related websites including Baseball-Reference. com, Pro-Football-Reference. com, Basketball Reference, and Hockey Reference. The site also includes sections on football, college basketball and, until December 2016. The sites attempt a comprehensive approach to sports data, for example, Baseball-Reference. com contains more than 100,000 box scores and Pro-Football-Reference. com contains data on every scoring play in the National Football League since 1941. The company, which is based in Philadelphia, was founded as Sports Reference in 2004 and was incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007

6.
Cameron Stadium
–
Cameron Stadium is an outdoor football stadium adjacent to the campus of Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. It is the host of W&Js home football games, mens and womens soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey, the main playing surface is Matrix turf, installed by Hellas Construction in 2009. The eight-lane, all-weather track was resurfaced in 2003, the stadium is home to the Towler Hall, located next to the field house, which is the home to the W&J Athletic Hall of Fame. Plaques featuring the names of individual that has been inducted into the Hall of Fame hang on the wall. Towler Hall also has a banquet room with capacity for 135-150 people. The adjacent Eaton/Gentile Room contains athletic memorability from the colleges past, Athletic training rooms are located under the home bleachers. The training rooms are equipped with electric stimulation machines, ultrasound unit, a paraffin wax machine, in 1885, the college purchased the old Washington Fairgrounds, an 8-acre field in the south side of town, for athletic purposes. In order to finance the purchase of the property the college erected an oil well on the grounds, students exercised in a makeshift facility under the grandstand in the years before the Old Gym was constructed in 1893. In 1920, the field was renamed College Field, the colleges 1968 campus master plan called for the construction of a new football stadium on Wade Avenue, which would have been within the East Washington Historic District. In 1990, the locker facilities received $500,000 worth of renovations, in 1999, the stadium was renovated and expanded through a $2.5 million donation from the Cameron family, best known as the owners of Cameron Coca-Cola. A state-of-the-art press box was constructed, along with hardware necessary for television and that same year, the college completed the Washington & Jefferson Athletic Hall of Fame, contained in the Eaton/Gentile Hall of Fame Room at Towler Hall. In 2001, the stadium was renamed Cameron Stadium, three years later, the locker room and training facilities located under the bleachers were renovated and the track was resurfaced and repainted. In 2008, the surface was replaced with RealGrass artificial turf, including multi-colored end zones. Media related to Cameron Stadium at Wikimedia Commons Cameron Stadium

7.
1922 Rose Bowl
–
The 1922 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 2,1922, between the Washington & Jefferson Presidents and the California Golden Bears. The Cal team was favored in this game, causing one sportswriter to say All I know about Washington and Jefferson is that theyre both dead. The 1921 team, coached by Greasy Neale, went 10–0 in the season, defeating powerhouses Pitt, University of Detroit. The 7–0 victory over rival Pitt was celebrated with a day of canceled classes, as the best team from the east, W&J was invited to the 1922 Rose Bowl to play the best team from the west, the undefeated and heavily favored California Golden Bears. The Red and Black could only afford to send 11 men on the cross-country trip, thus, W&J would be the last Rose Bowl team to play the same 11 men the entire game. During the train ride to Pasadena, in which Greasy Neale continued to prepare his men, one player caught pneumonia, luckily, another player had secretly stowed away on the train and was given the ill players ticket and roster spot. In one of the most disputed plays in Rose Bowl history, the game was notable as the last time a small school would be represented in the Rose Bowl. W&Js Russ Stein was named Most Valuable Player and he was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1991. The Red and Black finished the season with a share of the national championship. The only scoreless tie in Rose Bowl history, and one of the four ties in major bowl games. Fewest passing yards,0 Tied the record for fewest total points Media related to 1922 Rose Bowl at Wikimedia Commons

8.
College football
–
It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. No minor league farm organizations exist in American football and it is in college football where a players performance directly impacts his chances of playing professional football. The best collegiate players will declare for the professional draft after 3 to 4 years of collegiate competition. Those not selected can still attempt to land an NFL roster spot as a free agent. Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League, college football remained extremely popular throughout the U. S, in many cases, college stadiums employ bench-style seating, as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests. This allows them to more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium. College athletes, unlike players in the NFL, are not permitted by the NCAA to be paid salaries, colleges are only allowed to provide non-monetary compensation such as athletic scholarships that provide for tuition, housing, and books. Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as football, by the 1840s, students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as Rugby football. The game was taken to Canada by British soldiers stationed there and was soon being played at Canadian colleges, the first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9,1861. One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was William Mulock, a football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear. In 1864, at Trinity College, also a college of the University of Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland, modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians. The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, early games appear to have had much in common with the traditional mob football played in England. The games remained largely unorganized until the 19th century, when games of football began to be played on college campuses. Each school played its own variety of football, Princeton University students played a game called ballown as early as 1820. A Harvard tradition known as Bloody Monday began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes, in 1860, both the town police and the college authorities agreed the Bloody Monday had to go. The Harvard students responded by going into mourning for a figure called Football Fightum. The authorities held firm and it was a dozen years before football was again played at Harvard. Dartmouth played its own version called Old division football, the rules of which were first published in 1871, all of these games, and others, shared certain commonalities